Tag: Audra Mae

I know I’ve been procrastinating the blog and the sharing of music that really does bring me pleasure. Why do I not do it then? Well, I’m a very good procrastinator, and… well that’s all I got at the moment. This year, as with last, some of my favorite finds have been unearthed by tracking down the tunes to the TV show Chuck. I always look forward to that show, if for the music alone. Actually recently the soundtrack has outshone the plot by quite a few kilowatts.

Caveat: You’ll notice my “best of” mixes have nothing to do with actual “best” albums/songs, but rather what I liked best or rather what I like at this very moment better than the others. This is completely arbitrary to my personal taste and preference.

You can download the entire mix by clicking – HERE. (As with last years mix – it doesn’t fit on a standard CD-R, I was too lazy to whittle it down (again) and I couldn’t delete a couple songs, so if you want to fit it, you’ll have to pick a couple to remove before burning, if you still use those archaic discs.)

I usually don’t list my favorite albums, but without thinking terribly hard about it – off the top of my head the ones that stand out to me in the last year are (in no particular order):

Audra Mae is a fantastic singer-songwriter from Oklahoma, with a fabulous voice and some tunes that are well put together and take you to another time and place that you wish you could stay and soak in the sepia toned rays of the setting sun as they filter through the trees. It so happens that this lovely singer also has a famous maternal great aunt in that of one Judy Garland. She penned the one new tune on the Susan Boyle album that was released not long ago, and she’s had a tune featured on the great soundtrack to the cable channel FX show Sons of Anarchy. I haven’t caught the show, but the soundtracks that have come from it have been fun. Most of the tracks on the soundtrack are covers of great old songs and the one that Miss Mae sings is that of one Mr. Bob Dylan.